- Plaintext secrets are not written to disk in fallback mode.
- Fallback encryption uses AES-256-GCM with random nonce per write.
- Key derivation uses PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 with install-specific salt.
- Python cannot guarantee complete memory zeroization for immutable strings.
- OS keyring security depends on the host platform implementation.
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